1913 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1913 in architecture
The year 1913 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Woolworth Building when new
Centennial Hall in Breslau (Wrocław)
- May 20 – Centennial Hall in Breslau (Wrocław), designed by Max Berg.
- May 26 – Campbeltown Picture House (cinema) opens in Scotland, designed by Albert V. Gardner.[2]
- May 31 – The Carol I Mosque (today known as the Grand Mosque of Constanța) in Constanța, Romania, designed by George Constantinescu, is inaugurated.
- July 20 – New Town Hall (Hanover), designed by Hermann Eggert and Gustav Halmhuber, opened.
- October 18 – Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, designed by Bruno Schmitz, is inaugurated.
- Sinaia railway station in Sinaia, Romania.
- City Federal Building in Birmingham, Alabama, the tallest building in Alabama until 1969.
- Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton, Alberta completed.
- Union Buildings, Pretoria, Union of South Africa, by Herbert Baker, completed.
- Church of the Holy Spirit, Vienna, by Jože Plečnik, completed.
- Kelling Hall, Norfolk, England, designed by Edward Maufe, completed.
- Scheu House and Horner House, Vienna, both designed by Adolf Loos, completed.
- Heijplaat worker's housing for Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij in the Netherlands, planned by Herman Ambrosius Jan Baanders, is begun.
- Interiors of Café Capua, Herrenmodesalon Kniže and Bridge-Club-Wien, Vienna, all designed by Adolf Loos, completed.
- Halenbrücke concrete open-spandrel arch bridge over Aare between Bern and Kirchlindach in Switzerland.
Publications
Awards
Births
John Belcher
Deaths
References